“Nothing beats standing in the middle of the action, with all the data I need at my fingertips”

Tap into that one fear that drives greatness – the fear of regret.

Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: “A right to not have your data rise up and attack you.”

Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.

Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn’t have the data to back it up.

Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.

The plural of anecdotes is not data

People are running huge enterprises off of hacking and stealing data.

I think everyone has to ask, how do companies make their money? Follow the money. And if they’re making money mainly by collecting gobs of personal data, I think you have a right to be worried.

And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.